A British battleship with sixteen 14-inch guns

How useful would Vanguard or a second King George V batch have been with sixteen 14-inch guns?

It would be a useful and dangerous opponent because sixteen guns provide substantial broadside weight and volume of fire.

A hypothetical 28-knot battleship carrying sixteen 14-inch guns would present a serious opponent through broadside weight and volume of fire. Comparisons with nine 16-inch guns or eight 15-inch guns show why calibre alone is an incomplete measure. The King George V class remained useful, although it fell short of the armament and other capabilities originally hoped for. The planned Lion class and alternative British designs provide comparisons with what might have been built. An intended twelve-gun battery became ten guns, and treaty concerns had lost their relevance by completion in this criticism of the design choices. The suggested international reaction is that other powers would remain fairly confident in their own ships, with Germany's eight 15-inch guns a possible exception. A later sailing-warship analogy compares the class with a 100-gun first rate among 112- and 120-gun first rates: it remains a capital ship despite the difference in strength.